Jammu, March 03: In India patriotism has many colours and most of the time it depends on the situation and not the nation that defines our nationalism.
The Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) row over anti-India sloganeering and the aftermath has exposed the superficial patriotism of many Indians if at all they can be called ‘Indians’ as more than justifying the patriotism they are out to justify those who seek India’s disintegration.
While the JNU row gave a new twist to Indian politics and in a way polarized the nation the politics over the row does not seem to be ending anywhere soon with everybody who is somebody jumping into the arena to extract his pound of political flesh from the mess.
The conditional bail of Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested by Delhi police under sedition charges has given a new tool to the pseudo secular brigade trying to nail the government by not only mis-representing the court order but also initiating the clean chit spree of the prime accused.
While the court has granted Kanhaiya conditional bail the media and the supporters of the JNU sloganeering brigade has tried to call it as exoneration while the Delhi Government probe has also given a clean chit to Kanhaiya even before the court of law looking into the case.
The Delhi government magisterial court has however taken care not to exonerate Umer Khalid yet and sought investigation.
While earlier it was alleged that Kanhaiya got a rough deal due to media trial but now the same media is giving him clean chit and glorifying him even before the final verdict of the court raising concerns how politicization has taken over the common sense among JNU type intellectual class.
The better way out was to wait for the final court verdict before pronouncing him as innocent as the same brigade had also declared Ishrat Jehan as an innocent girl which however later turned out something else.
The support that anti-India sloganeering got has emboldened Kanhaiya so much that despite court conditions he seemed defiant in his first speech after his release and the way the a section of national media gave live coverage to him was clear that anti-India elements have grown stronger.
Earlier according to reports a Delhi government-appointed magisterial probe did not find any evidence of JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar raising anti-India slogans at a controversial event in the university, allegations based on which he was slapped with sedition charges by police.
According to the probe report, anti-national slogans were shouted at the campus and JNU administration has already identified “few faces” who were “clearly” heard raising them. The probe panel said their whereabouts must be found out and their role must be investigated.
The report said “nothing adverse” could be found against Kumar and that no witness or video was available to support allegations against the JNU students union president. Kumar was granted interim bail for six months in the case by the Delhi high court on Wednesday.
It said seven videos of the event on February 9 to protest Afzal Guru’s hanging were sent to a Hyderabad-based forensic lab and out of them, three were found to be doctored including one clipping of a news channel.
The probe headed by New Delhi district magistrate Sanjay Kumar said Umar Khalid was visible in many videos and that his support for Kashmir and Guru was known. He was the organizer of the event and his role should be further investigated, it said.
Umar and another JNU student Anirban Bhattacharya had surrendered before police on the night of February 24 and they were subsequently arrested in connection on sedition charge. Police had also questioned twice Ashutosh Kumar, another JNU student.
The probe was ordered by the city government on February 13 following massive outrage over Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition.
The report also cited claims of some of the JNU security staff that “possibly” Umar, Anirban and Ashutosh had raised the slogans protesting against the hanging of Guru and on Kashmir.
“Umar Khalid, who was the main organiser, is known for his views of Kashmir’s self determination and on Afzal Guru. He had organized many such programmes in past,” the report said.
Many outsiders of Kashmiri descent with their faces covered were seen in vidoes shouting anti-India slogans and pro-Afzal Guru slogans and their identity and role need to be investigated, the report also said.